The Editors: Tonya Kim Dewey received her Ph.D. in Germanic linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, where she has since been teaching Germanic literature and linguistics. Her interest in Icelandic poetics led her to Iceland as a Fulbright Fellow during the 2004-2005 academic year.Frog received his M.Phil. in Scandinavian Studies from University College London, where he is completing his dissertation on transmission, persistence, and change in oral traditions. Frog was a Fulbright Fellow in Finland during the 2000-2001 academic year and a Folklore Fellow in 2007. He is currently a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki in the Department of Folklore.

• Contents: Kristján Árnason: Preface and Acknowledgments – Frog/Tonya Kim Dewey: Introduction – Michael Schulte: Early Runic ‘metrical’ inscriptions - How metrical are they? – Guðrún Nordal: Metrical learning and the First Grammatical Treatise – Kristján Árnason: On Kuhn’s Laws and Craigie’s Law in Old Icelandic poetry – Thórhallur Eythórsson: The syntax of the verb in Old Icelandic: Evidence from poetry – Tonya Kim Dewey: The effect of prosody on the linear structure of adpositional phrases in eddic verse – Ragnar Ingi Aðalsteinsson: Alliteration and grammatical categories – Chris Golston: Old English feet – Tomas Riad: Accents left and right – Nigel Fabb: Formal interactions in poetic meter – Stefano Versace: How Germanic features can appear in Italian metrical poetry – Sissel Furuseth: The poem as a site of inherited structures and artistic innovation – Jacqueline Pattison Ekgren: Dipod rules: Norwegian stev, paired accents and accentual poetry – Frog: Speech-acts in skaldic verse: Genre, compositional strategies and improvisation – Helgi Skúli Kjartansson: No royal road: The extremes of dróttkvætt lines in Snorri’s Háttatal – Bergljót Soffía Kristjánsdóttir: Gnast and brast: On metrics, enjambment and more in two ditties in Gísla saga, the shorter version – Eva Lilja: Towards a theory of aesthetic rhythm.